Hey thanks for your help pc88mxer. I've read through the relatively short documentation for IO::Socket::INET, and I can't get the code below to work. Unfortunately, I don't think I know enough about network programming and or perl to get much farther on my own. It's passing the unless test, and exiting. The process is running, and I can connect to it with telnet. 
my @resp;
my @all_resp;

my $s = new IO::Socket::INET( PeerAddr => 'localhost', Peerport => 400
+0, Proto => 'tcp', Timeout => 4);
print "before unless";
unless ($s) { die "unable to connect..." }
sleep 1;

# we are connected, so just start sending commands

print $s "auth admin 555555\r\n";
sleep 1;
@resp = <$s>; # expect one line response
push (@all_resp, @resp);

print $s "voo allowed_ips\r\n";
sleep 1;
@resp = <$s>;
push (@all_resp, @resp);

print @all_resp;

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